Houya Surname
Approximately 82 people bear this surname
Houya Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cameroon | 51 | 1:407,237 | 34,925 |
| Burkina Faso | 8 | 1:2,294,012 | 16,398 |
| Mauritania | 7 | 1:584,980 | 20,004 |
| Benin | 6 | 1:1,722,600 | 61,769 |
| Ivory Coast | 4 | 1:5,767,808 | 55,416 |
| Algeria | 3 | 1:12,877,184 | 84,902 |
| Congo | 1 | 1:4,989,096 | 34,171 |
| Taiwan | 1 | 1:23,444,746 | 93,622 |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1:610,626 | 30,336 |
Houya (220) may also be a first name.
Houya Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Houya Come From? nationality or country of origin
Houya (Hassaniya-Arabic: ﻫﻮﻳﻪ) is most common in Cameroon. It can appear in the variant forms:. Click here for further possible spellings of Houya.
How Common Is The Last Name Houya? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 2,075,631st most widespread surname world-wide, borne by approximately 1 in 88,872,511 people. Houya occurs predominantly in Africa, where 98 percent of Houya are found; 91 percent are found in West Africa and 51 percent are found in Chadic Africa. It is also the 608,246th most widespread forename in the world It is held by 220 people.
This last name is most common in Cameroon, where it is carried by 51 people, or 1 in 407,237. In Cameroon it is primarily found in: Far North Region, where 82 percent are found and North Region, where 18 percent are found. Other than Cameroon it exists in 8 countries. It also occurs in Burkina Faso, where 10 percent are found and Mauritania, where 9 percent are found.
Phonetically Similar Names
Houya Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Houya in the Hassaniya-Arabic language | ||
| ﻫﻮﻳﻪ | hwyh | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Houya
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